Corridor
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
"There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place."
- 2 an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it wordnet
- 3 A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
"In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^([sic]) [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train."
- 4 The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. historical, rare
- 5 Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
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- 6 The land near an important road, river, railway line.
"Main Street corridor"
Example
More examples"I happened to witness the bullying in the corridor."
Etymology
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
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